This book examines the causes and courses of the series of wars in the Hellenistic period fought between the kingdom of the Seleukids and the Ptolemies over possession of Syria... Zobraziť viac
Without God or His Doubles offers a sympathetic, but critical interpretation of the philosophy of Richard Rorty. Rorty is one of the most widely discussed of contemporary philosophers, but there exist few attempts to ... Zobraziť viac
In 2018, a conference of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies took place in Albacete (Humanity and Nature: Arts and Sciences in Neo-Latin Literature)... Zobraziť viac
The present volume offers a collection of nine contributions dealing with the aspectual and temporal dimensions of the perfect and the aorist and based on data in Romance — in particular Spanish—, Tahitian, English, and Scandinavian languages... Zobraziť viac
In Language and Meter, Dieter Gunkel and Olav Hackstein unite fifteen linguistic studies on a broad variety of poetic traditions, including Homer, the Vedas, and Germanic alliterative verse... Zobraziť viac
Dispersals and diversification offers a reassessment of some of the pivotal linguistic and archaeological questions concerning the early phases of the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European... Zobraziť viac
This volume completes the survey of the ca. 400 species of springtails, which can be found in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, the Faroes and the Arctic Islands and includes the sections Entomobryomorpha and Symphypleona. The first volume... Zobraziť viac
Jesuit Intellectual and Physical Exchange between England and Mainland Europe, c. 15801789: The World is our House? gathers an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the Jesuit English Missions... Zobraziť viac
This volume brings together twenty papers by Albert Rijksbaron, a leading scholar of Ancient Greek, dealing with central topics in Greek linguistics such as tense-aspect, mood, voice, particles, negation, the article, questions... Zobraziť viac
The Phrygian Language provides an updated overview of this ancient language documented in central Anatolia between the 8th century AD and the Roman Imperial period... Zobraziť viac
In Language and Chronology, Toner and Han use Machine Learning to tackle the fundamental problem of dating ancient and medieval texts. They move us beyond the simple querying of electronic texts towards the creation... Zobraziť viac
This book presents a human rights-based assessment of the various modes of state–religion identification and of the various forms of state practice that surround and characterize these different state–religion models... Zobraziť viac
This is the first part of a multivolume monograph dealing with the about 400 species of springtails (Collembola) which are known to occur in the Nordic countries, including the Arctic Islands. Volume 1 contains richly illustrated identification keys... Zobraziť viac
The narrative style of the Aeneid suggests immediacy and involves the reader, while at the same time both narrator and reader know what the outcomes of the story will be... Zobraziť viac
This volume explores early modern recreations of Ovids Metamorphoses, focusing on the creative ingenium of artists and writers who freely handled the original text so as to adapt it to different artistic media and genres. Zobraziť viac
In August 2015, the sixteenth International Congress for Neo-Latin Studies was held in Vienna, Austria. The proceedings in this volume, sixty-five individual and five plenary papers, have been collected under the motto... Zobraziť viac
In this volume Jaap Kamphuis provides a comprehensive and systematic corpus-based quantitative and qualitative study of verbal aspect in Old Church Slavonic... Zobraziť viac
In From Nicopolis to Mohács, Tamás Pálosfalvi offers an account of Ottoman-Hungarian warfare from its start in the late fourteenth century to the battle of Mohács in 1526. During this period of one century and a half, the Kingdom of Hungary was... Zobraziť viac
This is the first detailed study of the collision of the two greatest powers of the Hellenistic world. The Roman Republic, victorious over Carthage and Macedon, met the Seleukid kingdom, which had crushed Ptolemaic Egypt... Zobraziť viac
This volume consists of papers based on presentations given at a roundtable on New Directions for Historical Linguistics: Impact and Synthesis, 50 Years Later, held at the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics in 2017... Zobraziť viac